Classical

I found myself at Barbes twice this past weekend, coming away satisfied both times. Friday night featured the latin-jazz-rock sounds of Zemog El Gallo Bueno (loosely translated as "Land of

After yesterday’s Romeo and Juliet matinee, I went for an early nightcap at Joe’s Pub, the excellent performance space attached to the Public Theater on Lafayette Street. They do three

It will probably come as no surprise that I don’t spend much time at the ballet, which suffers from an overabundance of tulle, Tchiakovsky, and overall tweeness. But, if you

Tonight, I’ll be up at Carnegie to see James Levine with the BSO in an all-French program including the NY premiere of Henri Dutillieux’s Le Temps l’Horloge, for soprano and

Last night was one of those evenings that makes me happy to live in New York. After a frustrating day spent waiting four hours for a mover to come take

On my way home from watching Gustavo Dudamel’s debut last night with the New York Philharmonic, I found myself unexpectedly depressed. Not because his performance wasn’t thrilling, or didn’t live

For all you night owls out there, WNYC (93.9 FM) is presenting an Overnight Music Ring cycle, with tonight bringing the third of the four operas, Siegfried. (If you’re not

The first time I met Simon Rattle was on a snowy January night in 2003, in the backstage area of the Musikverein in Vienna, where he had just conducted the